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UEFA have temporarily lifted the ban which would have seen Atletico Madrid forced to play Champions League games away from their home stadium, the Vicente Calderon.
The decision means thousands of Liverpool fans will avoid the nightmare of having to rearrange travel arrangements for the club’s Champions League tie with Atletico Madrid this coming Wednesday.
It was announced earlier this week that ...

UEFA have announced Atletico Madrid’s next two Champions League home games must be played at a neutral venue, meaning Liverpool’s tie in eight days is to be moved – to an as yet unconfirmed venue.
The punishment follows racist behaviour from some Atletico supporters at the Spanish club’s home tie with Olympique de Marseille. Atletico have also been fined €150,000 (£120,000) and their coach Javier ...

The Football Supporters’ Federation (FSF) offers its whole-hearted support to Chelsea fan Cliff Auger following today’s West London Courthouse decision to find him guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal following Cliff’s actions to protect his own son.
The court fined Cliff £500 while the police left him with four broken ribs and a punctured lung following the incident in Ja...

England fans who booed Ashley Cole in England’s 5-1 victory over Kazakhstan have been branded “crazy” by the Football Association.
Spokesman Adrian Bevington said: “It is crazy a section of our own supporters are booing one of our own players.”
“That is clearly not going to help the team during the course of a game.”
England boss Fabio Capello also joined in the criticism saying he did not underst...

So the Premier League goes into hibernation and international fixtures are back upon us. It's nice to take a breather from domestic football so we can debate more interesting and unusual topics. Like, erm, whether Lampard and Gerrard can play together.
England face Kazakhstan at Wembley on Saturday 11th before a long trip to Minsk and a tricky away tie with Belarus on Wednesday 15th. Most will be ...

UEFA chief executive David Taylor yesterday warned that clubs who run up unsustainable debts may be barred from European competition in the future.
Speaking at the Leaders in Football conference, Taylor said: ‘There would be forms of communication, even warnings or reprimands, before one got to a situation of exclusion but it is absolutely possible.’
The concerns focus on fair competition as clubs...

FA chairman Lord Triesman has delivered a damning indictment on rampant debt in the Premier League - and his calls for greater financial transparency from football clubs have clearly riled Richard Scudamore.
Calling upon clubs to stop hiding ‘toxic debts’ through complicated ownership and debt repackaging methods, Triesman claimed city sources said Premier League clubs currently owe some £3billion...

Portsmouth and England keeper David James has been presented with the Football Supporters’ Federation’s Football Writer of the Year 2008 award.
FSF Chair Malcolm Clark and FSF National Council members Ken Malley, Pam Wilkins and Monica Hartland presented James with his trophy on the Fratton Park pitch prior to Pompey’s Premier League fixture with Stoke City.
It was a memorable afternoon for all ...

It's been a very good month for the FSF, we've long campaigned for the introduction of safe standing into the top two flights of English football and we're seeing progress on this. In a significant vote for British football fans the Liberal Democrats chose to back safe standing at their annual conference, becoming the first mainstream party to do so in the process.
We've talked about this before ...

Now we’ve all seen Ronny Rosenthal’s amazing miss at Villa Park which is often cited as the worst ever, but believe it or not, we think we might just have found a worse one. Unbelievable.
Although having said that, £150 million can’t even guarantee you someone who can finish those types of chances nowadays. Toblerone for a foot that boy.
Anyway, still on Ronaldo, last month he picked up the Euro...